Research

My main research project is about the disease burden of RSV infections in young children in primary care, the RSV ComNet project. In this project we have developed and evaluated a standardised disease burden protocol to measure the clinical and socio-economic disease burden of RSV infections in young children in primary care. We have evaluated the protocol in the winter of 2019/20 in Italy and the Netherlands. After evaluation we have updated this standardised disease burden protocol and we are implementing the revised protocol in more European countries in the winter of 2020/21. In addition, I am involved in the Global Epidemiology of RSV in Community and hospitalized care (GERI) project and the Burden of Influenza and RSV Disease (BIRD) project.

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Career
November 2019 - present: Researcher Nivel
2014 - 2019: PhD student in the University Medical Center Groningen at the department of general practice. Thesis: “Management of childhood functional constipation in primary care”
Currently, I am finishing the last chapters of my thesis.
2013 - 2014: Junior researcher at the department of general practice in the UMCG. In this project we investigated the feasibility of a decision aid (Outcome Prioritization Tool) to elicit patient preferences of elderly patients with multimorbidity and polifarmacy.
2010 - 2013: Student assistant/research assistant in the UMCG.
Education
2014 - 2019: Registration clinical epidemiologist B, department of epidemiology UMCG, Vereniging voor Epidemiologie
2010 - 2012: Master Human Movement Sciences Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
2007 - 2010: Bachelor Human Movement Sciences Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
2001 - 2007: Pre-university college (VWO) Blariacumcollege Blerick